Christmas Markets

Christmas Markets

Kassel: Fairytale Christmas market

- Enchanting fairytale Christmas market with familiar figures in the town center
- Handicraft, culinary delights, large fairytale pyramid

Date: November 25 to December 30, 2019
Opening hours: 11 am to 8 pm daily; gastronomy to 10 pm, closed: December 24-26

Bremen: Christmas market

- With 170 stalls in historical settings around the City Hall (UNESCO World Heritage Site)
- Christmas concerts and exhibitions, fairytale play of the Bremen Town Musicians daily at 5 pm

Date: November 25 to December 23, 2019
Opening hours: Mo.- Thu. 10 am to 8:30 pm, Fr. - Sa 10 am - 9 pm, So. 11 am to 8:30 pm

Bremen: Schlachte-Zauber market

- Schlachte-Zauber lights up the Weser embankment in an ice-blue sea of lights

- Costumed pirates, mediaeval taverns, traditional tradesmen, hearty delicacies
- On the opening day, a great pirate spectacle is celebrated

Date: November 25, to December 23, 2019
Opening hours: Mo.- Thu. 10 am to 8:30 pm, Fr. - Sa 10 am - 9 pm, So. 11 am to 8:30 pm

Hameln: Christmas Market Hameln

- Fabulous programme against a unique backdrop with an illuminated sky over the wedding house terrace.

Date: November 27, till December 23, 2019
Opening hours: Monday till Thursday 10 am - 8 pm; Friday and Saturday 10 am - 10 pm; Sunday 11 am - 8 pm

"Mystical Night": December 1st, 10 am - 11 pm

Hann. Münden: Christmas market

- Christmas romanticism in a setting of historical half-timbered houses in the old town
- Fairy tale narrators, handicraft, special events, individual present ideas and advent manger

Date: November 29, to December 23, 2019 and December 27+28
Opening hours: daily. 11 am to 8 pm

Hanau: Fabulous christmas market

- More than 75 market and gastronomy stalls
- Mini ferris wheel, Nativity manger , hand-carved wooden figures, largest advent calendar in Hesse, 70 exhibitors in market booths, artists' Christmas fair in the historic City Hall

Date: November 25, to December 22, 2019
Opening hours: daily 11 am to 9 pm

Marburg on the Lahn: Advent market on the market place

- Festively adorned streets and alleyways
- Stroll through the historic old upper town

Date: November 29, to December 23, 2019
Opening hours: Monday till Saturday 11 am - 8 pm, Sunday 12 am - 8 pm

Hofgeismar: Christmas market

- Illuminated half-timbered houses, handicrafts and culinary offerings, fairytale narrations, puppet plays, visit to Santa Claus, accompanying musical program

Date: every weekend in advent, Friday till Sunday: 30.11. – 02.12.; 07.12. – 09.12.; 14.12. – 16.12.; 21.12. – 23.12.
Closed: Mo.- Th.
Opening hours: Friday: 3pm – 7pm, Saturday: noon – 7pm, Sunday noon – 6pm

Fürstenberg: Artisan Christmas market

- 80 exhibitors, participatory activities, tower of wind instruments, diversified program, culinary delights, artistic metalwork, basket maker, glassblower, cut-out silhouettes artist, spinner

Date: 30.11. + 01.12.2019 & 07.12. + 08.12.2019
Opening hours: 11 am to 7 pm

Melsungen: Christmas market in the winter woods

- Festively illuminated, with streets adorned with Christmas trees
- Yuletide presentation of artisans

Date: December 06, to December 22, 2019
Opening hours: 12 am to at least 8 pm

Alsfeld: Fabulous Christmas market

- Participation for young and old, Christmas market stage with regional and national music artists.
- Mother Hulda and Santa Claus look over every da
- Traditional mulled wine on Thursday evenings

Date: December 6, to December 15, 2019
Opening hours: Monday – Tuesday 11:30 am - 06:30 pm, Wednesday 10am - 06:30 pm (familyday) , Thursday 11am – 11pm (special evening for hot mulled wine: Glühweinabend), Fri - Sun 11:00 am - 08:00 pm

Bad Wildungen: Christmas market in the old town

- Marketplace with more than 40 stalls, great Christmas tree programme on the stages, petting zoo, Hesse's most beautiful gingerbread house
- Santa Claus waits for children on Sunday afternoon

Date: December 12, to December 15, 2019
Opening hours: Thu: 2 pm to 9 pm; Fri: 2 pm to 11 pm; Sat: 12 to 11 pm; Sun: 12 am to 6 pm

Kaufungen: "Stiftweihnacht" Christmas market in the storybook abbey courtyard

- Fabulous setting with craftsmanship and art round about the foundation for chivalrous nobility

Date: December 13, to December 15, 2019
Opening hours: 12/14 4pm - 8 pm; 12/15 12 am - 8 pm; 12/16 12 am - 7 pm

Heilbad Heiligenstadt

- On the 2nd and 3rd Advent weekend with fairytale program and attractions at the market place and in the baroque garden.

Date: December 5, to December 29, 2019
Opening Hours: Monday – Thursday 4 pm to 7 pm, Friday – Sunday 1pm – 8pm

Göttingen

- In the middle of the Old Town of Göttingen
- The world famous Gänseliesel (Little Goose Girl) statue is right in the center of the Christmas market

Date: November 27, to December 29, 2019 – closed December 24, to December 26, 2019
Opening hours: Mon-Fri 10:00 am – 08:30 pm ; Sat+Sun 11:00 am – 08:30 pm